Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven’s Time

"A supermarket tabloid of classical music criticism."—From the new foreword by Peter Schickele.A snakeful of critical venom aimed at the composers and the classics of nineteenth- and twentieth-century music. Who wrote advanced cat music? What commonplace theme is very much like Yankee Doodle? Which composer is a scoundrel and a giftless bastar More »